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msu94
Joined: 16 Feb 2002
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 Sun Mar 28, 2004 9:57 pm
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Thanks for your help. I will try and track down a good working HD and see if I can figure it out. I think the DVD ROM was on the same channel as the HD.
I will let you know the results.
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msu94
Joined: 16 Feb 2002
Posts: 207
Location: Tucson, AZ |
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Tue Mar 30, 2004 6:45 pm
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Problem fixed, and old hard drive appears to be just fine.
Why it was not able to find the hard drive before after the firmware flashing problem, I not know, but I went out and bought a new Seagate 80 gig (on clearance at BB for 49.99), and was noticing the cable select feature and what it meant, which I admit I honestly never knew. Switched the jumper over from master to cable select, and booted up perfectly.
It worked just fine previously, so why it had to be changed over, I do not know.
Thanks for the help. I had bought the new HD to try and reinstall xp and hopefully transfer those old files over if they were still there, which they were along with everything else on the drive.
Its nice to have my desktop back
[Edited 1 times, lastly by msu94 on 03-30-2004] |
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Swamp Gas
Joined: 06 Jun 2001
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Location: On a Hill in the Lowlands |
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Tue Mar 30, 2004 7:13 pm
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Glad to see you didn't lose the data, and I could be of help!
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msu94
Joined: 16 Feb 2002
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Location: Tucson, AZ |
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Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:55 pm
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Even managed to resurrect my DVD ROM drive too this morning. Used MTKFLASH from a DOS boot, and flashed it to that ide channel, since the drive itself was not recognizable.
Brought it back from the dead!
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Swamp Gas
Joined: 06 Jun 2001
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Location: On a Hill in the Lowlands |
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Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:11 pm
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With DVD-R prices dropping, I backup 4 - 200 gig drives every night, or when I get 4.3 gigs of new data.
DV Video goes to a DV-Cam deck that also uses mini-DV tape, but it goes on as video, NOT data. They hold one hour of video, which would translate to 15 gigs of data. Price wise, it is not much different ($5 for an hour), but saves the DVD-R's strictly for data.
DO NOT use a program called DVBackup. It uses mini-DV for DATA only. One bit dropped during a 15 gig backup, and ......FLUSH! goes the whole tape. BAD very bad! that's why DAT is sometimes better for audio backup and mini-DV for Video Backup, because even if you drop data, you won't lose the whole session.
I usually make two backups of the same session on DVD-R, and simultaneuosly duplicate the data to an external firewire drive, just in case, and then delete the firewire data when the verify comes back OK.
[Edited 1 times, lastly by swamp gas on 04-01-2004] |
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